Elk Massacre

The Elk Massacre occurred in 1583 at the start of the short colonial conflict between England and Portugal in South America. A force of around 20 Inca warriors and an English explorer attacked a party of Portuguese settlers that were hunting elk next to an Inca village, which had just allied with England when a trading post was built there. The natives massacred the settlers with spears as the explorer shot at them with his musket, and the massacre came immediately before the Siege of Terra de Prata, which saw the destruction of the Portuguese settlement there.